Christian Ferras Pierre Barbizet - Cesar Franck Sonata

[hamadah4]

When you guys and girls love this- it is still/again avaliable on cd, I just bought it and the playing and sound is wonderful! What a duo Barbizet and Ferras were!

[wnaenni]

Fantastic!

[grandisdavid]

Christian Ferras is concertmaster in my pantheon!

[metteholm75]

I took guitarcourses at the "Ecole dÈte Internationale" in Nice in 1974 and 1975. Ferras should have been one of the teachers, and one of the concertplayers, but he got sick. Seriously, they said. The following year, he was out of the game. Depressions, no doubt. Many people had really looked foreward to participating his course.

[flaviavaleriamauro]

es la musica mas bella del mundo

[noratranvouez]

Barbizet and Ferras were the best interprets of Franck, a extraordinary musician between France and Germany, between Wagner and Fauré. thank you very much for this long video. Nora

[noratranvouez]

Barbizet and Ferras were the best interprets of Franck, a extraordinary musician between France and Germany, between Wagner and Fauré. thank you

[KosteckiAdam]

Fantastic!!!

[harald144]

I am gonna play this on audition in two weeks :P:P the piano part that is .... hehe

***practising day and night ***

[enzulopa]

just a word.......art!!!!!!

[HeiligZorn]

Amazing!

[jsarroyo00244]

muy bueno

[dirkesa]

llinda!

[Beatriz8408]

@dirkesa

On devrait remercier les belges pour nous avoir doné ce musicien et sa merveilleuse musique.

[banlun]

@Beatriz8408 Mais Ferras est Français! Il le fut, l'est et le sera.

[QSPF11]

On oublie trop souvent que C. Franck comme E. Ysaïe (père du concours Reine Elisabeth) et d'autres sont des musiciens belges. Merci pour notre petit pays! Ici superbement jouée!

[Noppanman]

i prefer the cello variation

[Gabyyxo23]

la tonalité, les rythmes, tous ces melodies sont absolument magnifiques!!! y'a pas un mieux ensemble du violon et piano que ferras et barbizet! c'est sublime.

[ThorgarManowar]

I'm studying this sonata, it's one of the most difficult in all the chamber repertoire... especially for the pianist. But here Ferras shows all his talent... maybe he effectively stresses too much some notes, but in many points of the sonata the author openly requests it. And it's also the way of playing that was common at the time... Ojstrakh also has that deepness of sound, but a more energical phrasing. Ferras gives more the idea of the dramatism of the piece, in my opinion

[billyguns2]

The pianist is amazing. I find the violinist breaks up the long line by too many accents ( da-DA-da-DA-da-DA-daDA ),no matter how gorgeous his tone. Surely we ought not to be aware of bar lines in this music; that is one reason the pianist here is so fabulous.

[musicstudent36]

I have to agree with you - doesn't seem to flow as well.

[billyguns2]

Thank you; I'm glad someone here also has sensitive hearing.

[ilovescarlatti]

amazing|!|||||||||

[violinARTCH]

Pas vite, dans la pureté du son... poésie pure. C'est beau !

[boxers7x5]

Astounding, thank you for posting this.

One of the greatest performances of this work ever, Ferras with that sound and depth of playing and Barbizet, such clean playing...and the ensemble, incredible. What a great team they were. Others have noted the loss when Ferras took his own life, but very often the severely depressed are the ones that make performances like this of such intensity.

He will be remembered by many.

[bigbearleeds]

Stunning; no other word for it. Having listened to Ferras playing the beautiful Faure Berceuse I didn't think I'd ever find him playing this masterpiece. What a terrible sad loss to the world but what gifts he left us. And Barbizet just blew my hat off. A rare treat and thank you for sharing.

[theoceanave]

This is definitely a fine Franck reading - can you believe Barbizet had the whole piano part memorized for this?!! And that piano part is far from easy. It is actually far more dense than the violin part.

[InfernalPurge]

Franck uses a few little theme elements to write a major work (in this sonata and, for example, in his symphony in D-minor). Once you play it, you'll recognize the theme elements, and you can more easy memorize the whole.

The simple and geniously logic way Franck wrote it, along with carefully considering which themes and elements are effective and useful, makes it a masterpiece.

I had to check this violin sonata for my music theory classes, and I can understand why.

Brilliant performance!

[MrFullService]

The absolute best Franck Sonata, nay, the best violinist ever. You soar to heights of your own my friend. I hope you are well taken care of where you are now.

[morph47]

of unfortunate circumstance has this violinist left us of this world. May the light of this video and many others be a testament to his art.

[nelassov]

Référence absolue ? peut ètre... de toute façon superbe !

[jeanphilipperameau81]

je crois la référence absolue pour la sonate de Franck...là il ya vraiment de la spiritualité emouvante, pas seulement deux instrumentistes superbes...(en plus, barbizet aussi joue par coeur!)